Yeah... I don't know if I want to do that. The GTS450 has no place in my farm anyway... not in my main rig, it's less powerful than the GTX260 (and no power supply other than the one it currently has can power it), and would probably be too hard on my server's power supply, considering it would have 2 cards folding 24/7 and the CPU crunching along with them... and the 2nd PCI-E connector is chained off the first one like molex (something I've never seen before, heh) so I only want to add a low power card in there... like my uncle's 9600GT...

This is what a GTS450 can do for you, a GTX260 will not produce these kind of PPD. It only takes one 6pin plug to power the GTS450.
It does all of this while staying a cool 47C.

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Agreed. The GTS450 will produce 9400+ppd as the only card. When I threw in a GTX460 in the same rig, the GTS450 dropped to 7900 ppd and was/is not CPU bound. I will soon rearrange GPU's and the GTS450 will be solo gain.

Also I don't have a SLI board but I do have a extra 8500 gt and a extra crossfire slot in my board. If I add the 8800gt as a physx card can it fold at the same times as my gtx 570 in the main GPU slot.

So it seems my Gigabyte 870A-USD3 is DOA:shadedshu, but it's my fault for being under the delusion Gigabyte was capable of anything else, out of the 5 mobo's I have bought from them all but 1 has been DOA, and the one that wasn't had a defective CMOS.

So it seems my Gigabyte 870A-USD3 is DOA:shadedshu, but it's my fault for being under the delusion Gigabyte was capable of anything else, out of the 5 mobo's I have bought from them all but 1 has been DOA, and the one that wasn't had a defective CMOS.

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You've had some bad luck for sure. I've had 3 Gigabyte motherboards, and they've all been rock solid. I did go through 3 ASUS P5 Pro M/B's before I gave up and got a gigabyte.

OC'ed, and completely stable, it beats the EVGA 480 (@ stock) I had in 3D mark vantage by a good 600 or so points.

And runs super cool too. Idles in the early 30s, and folding cannot push it beyond 60.

My other 470s w/stock cooler run on load at early to mid 70s. The 480 ran at mid 80s on load, leaving me with no headroom to OC.

I do have it flashed w/ a custom BIOS which allows me to push more voltage than what nVidia allows (1087mV). Going by temps, I have more headroom to OC, but at 900Mhz core, the display just vanishes the instant I hit Apply, even under no load at all.

This is my EVGA GTX 480 @ stock:

I'm gonna try pushing the clocks on my 470 some more. Any harm in pushing more voltage if temperatures are well below the threshold?

Bad luck for sure I have several Gigabytes and none of them have went bad or received them DOA.

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I also have a few Gigabyte motherboards, the problem is it seems Gigabyte's QC involves a blind monkey, as I have to RMA a board at least once to get it to work. Their great boards, I'm just not sure they are worth the 10-20 dollars extra in RMA costs.wtf:

My other 470s w/stock cooler run on load at early to mid 70s. The 480 ran at mid 80s on load, leaving me with no headroom to OC.

I do have it flashed w/ a custom BIOS which allows me to push more voltage than what nVidia allows (1087mV). Going by temps, I have more headroom to OC, but at 900Mhz core, the display just vanishes the instant I hit Apply, even under no load at all.

So it seems my Gigabyte 870A-USD3 is DOA:shadedshu, but it's my fault for being under the delusion Gigabyte was capable of anything else, out of the 5 mobo's I have bought from them all but 1 has been DOA, and the one that wasn't had a defective CMOS.

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Yeah I also think it's bad luck on your part

I have the following Gigabyte boards and I've never had any problems for as long as I've owned them:

@bonez its not stable if it fails WU's. You can go as high as you want on volts but if the temps starting going up, i would not go any higher on the core clocks. Shaders is what makes the difference in folding.